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Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme, Phase III - Midterm evaluation

eval_number:

3163

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/3163

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Gender equality

category:

Conditions of work & equality

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comments:

SCORE management. Implementation partners ILO departments

challenges:

Women workers are less likely to benefit from SCORE than men because they form a smaller part of the workforce in the sectors receiving SCORE training. Entering into new sectors/regions using gender criteria is difficult in Phase III because implementation partners are focused on sustainability and capacitation.

success:

SCORE has tried to ensure women’s participation to the extent the underlying programme design allows. Although women are less likely to have been trained than men, they are present in Enterprise Improvement Teams, and performance against gender-specific indicators is largely positive where they exist.

context:

Sectors where SCORE is active are often male-dominated. In some regions, women are more likely to be entrepreneurs for cultural and historical reasons. The gender impact of a programme is intuitively greater in sectors where women workers predominate. Gender participation has been consistently emphasized in SCORE activities. Other areas of discrimination that are an ILO focus have not been given the same attention (e.g. disability, youth).

description:

In order to mainstream gender, any gender strategy needs to be integrated into the programme design from the outset. In SCORE’s case, this would mean ensuring that the training methods (including materials) were robust from a gender perspective, and as importantly that sectors and regions were chosen based on gender criteria. Likewise, implementation partners should be capacitated in gender mainstreaming. If gender impact is not the primary goal for a programme, then its position in relation to other management and performance criteria needs to be clear (e.g. in the Project Document). For example, in selecting a sector to work with, what weight has been given to gender compared to factors such as market size, SME management capacity and prevalent working conditions? Are there trade-offs between gender and other aspects of a non-discrimination agenda (e.g. disability), and how are they addressed?

administrative_issues:

This lesson is primarily relevant for future programmes.

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/250871

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location:

country:

Inter-Regional

region:

Inter-Regional

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eval_title:

Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme, Phase III - Midterm evaluation